Thread regarding Dell Inc. layoffs

I can attest to the fact that people hold back on Tell Dell, as it's well known the only person who will face consequences for negative feedback is their direct manager, even if the negative feedback is really about the ELT and their decisions.

You could even see it in the head of HR's email a few weeks back about Tell Dell results. She stated that we have uncertainty, but said it was due to direct managers not communicating the company's strategy well enough, and that sr. leadership will work with direct managers on communicating more effectively. This was total gaslighting, as anyone knows the uncertainty is from the never ending layoffs, reorgs, the RTO policy, etc.

So yeah, Tell Dell is a joke. If people really gave their true thoughts, the numbers would be even worse than they were.

I'm close with a lot of legacy Dell and Legacy EMC employees. It feels like both sides feel like there was way to much change. It's easy to blame the other side but it's leadership decisions that come from the leadership teams. They took a bit away each year and just don't seem to care. The come back to office seems to be the breaking point for most.

I also know most employees want give bad ratings for fear that the manager will know it was them. Leaders remind the anything below a 9 is a negative. Teams get guilt tripped if a leader scores low and they have to read results

Will be interesting to see if there is a culture shift after the layoff or the same toxic environment.

Does public opinion help or hinder the plan to pay share holders more money? does not hurt = who cares

Dell doesn't care about the drop. They want you to leave. ELT wants the company to be below 90K employees.

• Seems to be more of an industry trend and reset

Bingo! It's happening in a lot of tech companies.

In all reality all of the negativity can be traced back to C19. Followed by going public. It’s been 4 years of stress and change With that said the grass is not always greener. I have many friends at competitors such as Microsoft Cisco etc. they are all doing the same things we are. Seems to be more of an industry trend and reset

Dell has become one of the worst companies to ever work for. Better to bail than rot in this toxic environment.